Allen County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Terri Kohlrieser is on the May ballot for the Republican Nomination for Allen County Common Pleas Court Judge, now held by David Chaney who is not running for re-election.

There is no Democrat on the ballot. We have worked closely with Terri Kohlrieser and know her passion for justice, her great intelligence, her deep knowledge of the law, and her personal integrity.

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We keep hearing about common sense gun control. What is common sense gun control? Is it banning five to ten million AR-15 type?

The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates there are roughly five to ten million AR-15 rifles owned in the United States, a small share of the roughly 300 million firearms owned by Americans. If banned, what would happen to these guns? Does anybody believe that people would turn them in or sell to the government?

High powered, rapid fire weapons, be they rifles or hand guns, are not needed by hunters or citizens

Posted by Fred Steiner on February 20, 2018 - 8:32am

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High powered, rapid fire weapons, be they rifles or hand guns, are not needed by hunters or citizens.

Tragically they are used over and over again at schools, churches, malls, entertainment venues, work places and even military bases to kill people. It was only in 2008 in Justice Antonin Scalia’s 5-4 Supreme Court opinion that it was determined for the first time in our country’s history that the Second Amendment provided protection for the individual’s right to own guns.

Bluffton Family Recreation would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of our recent Shoe Drive Fundraiser.

Together we collected 222 bags of shoes (25 pairs each) for a grand total of 5, 550 pairs of shoes!!! By keeping all these shoes out of a landfill and instead sending them to 24 non-profits all over the world to be refurbished and used, BFR earned over $2,000, which will be used to enhance our facility and the programs offered by Bluffton Family Recreation.

When I saw the “Hot air balloon over Bluffton - 1905” that was posted on January 2, I wondered if the story was truly “lost in history.” And were early air balloons really potato shaped? Here’s what I found: This airship could be piloted by Augustus Roy Knabenshue, an aviation pioneer born in 1875 in Lancaster, Ohio.